Advice No. 1: How to get stains out of white sheets?

[i-need-a-martini]

They are all my beautiful old vintage cotton and linen Italian sheets. And I want them crisp and perfectly white without yucky looking stains.

I have tried bleaching them and left them in the sun for days but still nothing.

(I am sure you can guess the stains I mean)

[**meep**]

any pics of the stains so we can determine the best course of action ?

Lol!

I think you can guess what they look like - big yellow globs. They are located all over the place.  :8}

oh yuck!  i have only seen them on pillows.  gross.

if vanish preen oxy action spray wont work, nothing will.

[*crikey*mate*]

Try ringing a hotel and asking them for the Housekeeping department and ask them what they do......

I find if I leave anything in Napisan long enough it comes out white LOL

leave em in for 2 weeks and see how it goes LOL

[j*oono]

Once the stains are well and truly set you might be stuck with them. Linen can take the highest washing temperature.  When I was preparing vintage linen things I used to make a napisan paste and then I would leave it on for a while and then run boiling water through the stain or actually boil them in a saucepan on the stove top. Sometimes with good results and sometimes not. Maybe you need one of those old fasioned boilers for your sheets.

I wonder where hotels have their sheets laundered.  They might be able to help you.

[i-need-a-martini]

oh yuck!  i have only seen them on pillows.  gross.

Huh?

[j*oono]

Sorry, missed Crikey's post.  yes a hotel launderer might be able to help.

[i-need-a-martini]

When I was preparing vintage linen things I used to make a napisan paste and then I would leave it on for a while and then run boiling water through the stain

Might give that a go. I only soaked them in napisan infused water so perhaps it was just too diluted.

[i-need-a-martini]

Although I did soak them with bleach directly and that didn't seem to work.

Anyways, will give the napisan paste a go.

[**meep**]

have you tried vanish preen oxy action ????

[meh_too]

I have had great success with a combination of sard and napisan.  I scrub the stain directly with the sard soap and then soak in a strong solution of powdered napisan with very hot water.

Hope this helps  🙂

[*crikey*mate*]

I used to hit my white chef jackets, aprons and cloths with a pre wash stain remover let that soak in for a while and then dump em in a bucket of napisan for up to 2 weeks. But that was with fresh stains........

Came up white every time.

Sent em all to a Dry Cleaners once - they came back clean but still heavily stained - sent that batch to my mum to fix - LOL - but there's no way I'm gonna ask her how to get c stains out of sheets ROFL